Sensex ends 200 pts down

During the day the 30-share index had touched a low of 9609.21 points.

The Bombay Stock Exchange benchmark index (Sensex) on Wednesday lost 200.56 points to close at almost a four-month-low of 9,756.76 points largely on sustained selling by foreign funds and retail investors.

During the day the 30-share index had touched a low of 9609.21 points.

The Sensex had bounced back after touching the intra-day low of 9,609.21, raising hopes that the 9,600 major support level might provide some respite to sinking market.

The broad-based BSE-100 Index tumbled by another 151.68 points to 4,981.39 from previous close of 5,133.27.

The BSE-200 index and the Dollex-200 were quoted sharply down at 1,183.29 and 429.11 at close compared to last close of 1,223.82 and 444.24 respectively. The BSE-500 Index dropped by 145.02 points to 3,776.52 from previous close of 3,921.54 and the Dollex-30 finished lower at 1,744.78 from 1,782.39.